French ship Breslaw (1848)

	1/20th scale model of Suffren, lead ship of Breslaw's class, on display at the Musée national de la Marine
History
France
Name	Breslaw
Namesake	Wrocław
Builder	Brest
Laid down	26 May 1827
Launched	21 July 1848
Stricken	22 July 1872
Fate	Scrapped 1886
General characteristics
Class & type	Breslaw-class ship of the line
Displacement	4,289 t (4,221 long tons)
Length	63.54 m (208 ft 6 in) (gun deck)
Beam	16.28 m (53 ft 5 in)
Draught	8.44 m (27 ft 8 in)=
Depth	8.05 m (26 ft 5 in)
Propulsion	1 × shaft; 1 × Horizontal-return connecting rod-steam engine
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
Complement	814
Armament	80 muzzle-loading, smoothbore guns; Lower gun deck: 16 × 30 pdr long guns, 14 × 22 cm (8.7 in) long Paixhans guns; Upper gun deck: 30 × 30 pdr short guns; Forecastle & Quarterdeck: 2 × 16 cm (6.3 in) rifled guns, 12 × 30 pdr short guns, 6 × 30 pdr carronades;

Breslaw was the lead ship of her class of steam-powered, third-rate, 80 gun ships of the line built for the French Navy during the 1850s. She had been laid down as a Suffren-class sailing ship of the line in 1827, but remained on the stocks until the ship was launched in 1848 and completed the following year. Breslaw played a minor role in the Crimean War of 1854–1855. The ship was chosen for conversion to steam power in 1854.